If You Like… is a feature highlighting blogger recommendations for books, authors, TV shows, movies, and music based on the things you already know and love. This week’s post includes recommendations for stories about characters from opposite sides of the tracks. If you like characters from opposite sides of the tracks, you might like… Books/Authors [...]

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While planning for her senior year at boarding school, Leena uses her connections with the Dean to have Frost House converted into a girls’ dormitory for the year. Leena’s interest in Frost House is more than casual; she’s obsessed with the place, and with architecture in general. She plans to live in the charming little [...]

Tags: boarding schools, dating, friendship, ghosts, psychological fiction
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Mary Pearson’s The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a brave exploration of bioethics. In an age of rapid technology development, Pearson’s follow-up novel, The Fox Inheritance, similarly forces readers to stop and wonder how far is too far when science is used to save or replace people. The details of Jenna need not be fresh [...]

Tags: bioethics, friendship, identity, science fiction
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Tom Harvey’s head is cracked open by an iPhone that was dropped from a 30th floor window. While doctors are able to remove most of the phone from his head, small fragments remain implanted in his brain. When Tom wakes up from a coma, he discovers that his brain has the capabilities of a smartphone….and [...]

Tags: friendship, gangs, rape, science fiction, secrets, superhero, technology
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Pearl (aka Bean) and Henry are the best of friends. Having grown up as social outcasts in a small town, they have only each other to turn to when times get tough. For Bean and Henry, times are pretty much always tough. As the children of eccentric single mothers, life is often messy and complicated. [...]

Tags: coming of age, death, family problems, friendship, homosexuality, mothers and daughters, secrets, small town
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